Wednesday, April 25, 2012

The Tate House Museum in Portland's Stroudwater Village neighborhood. According to the museum's website, the house was constructed in 1755 for Captain George Tate, who was a Senior Mast Agent for the Royal British Navy. It is the only pre-revolutionary home open to the public in Greater Portland and it offers an insightful glimpse of 18th century life in Colonial Maine. Check out the museum's website for more info.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

I've gotten a ton of photo submissions from readers lately, thanks! I truly enjoy seeing other people's perspectives of this city and am glad I have the opportunity to share them with my viewers.

Some of these were submitted to me via email and some were uploaded to the Portland Daily Photo Flickr Group. Since I got multiple submissions from some people, I will try keep it fair and post one photo from each contributor in this post. Here we go, in no particular order:

Monday, April 23, 2012

I love the plentiful street trees and the trolley system present in the before photo. The ornate brick building on the right is the Baxter Library building. It was built in 1900 and housed the main branch of the Portland Public Library system until the late 1970's when it moved to it's current location in Monument Square. The Joanne Waxman Library, part of the Maine College of Art, occupied the building from the 70's until 2000 when it consolidated with the rest of MECA in the Porteous building. Upon completion of a beautiful restoration project in 2010, the Via Agency moved into the building and is still going strong.

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Friday, April 20, 2012

The Portland Museum of Art has free admission every Friday evening, not just on Friday Friday, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. (made possible through the generous support of L.L.Bean and Patricia and Cyrus Hagge). Here's a couple photos from the museum.

Monday, April 16, 2012

A couple looking up at one of Portland's ugliest and most insulting buildings, located on Cumberland Avenue. The building houses telecommunications equipment for Fairpoint Communications, I believe. I'm still not sure what they were looking at, which I find adds to the charm of the photo.

Saturday, April 14, 2012

The much anticipated Portland Flea For All is now open! The Flea is located at 125 Kennebec Street, in the heart of Bayside and will be open every Saturday and Sunday from 10am-5pm. I had a photographic preview of the space a couple weeks ago, and as promised made it out to opening day for a couple more pictures of everything in action. I was amazed/happy to see so many people wandering around the neighborhood and checking out this excellent addition to Portland's buy-local economy.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Here are some photos of the former Marine Hospital on Martin's Point. This brick Italianate building dates back to the late 1850's and was beautifully renovated a couple of years ago. The building is now part of Martin's Point Health Care.

Sunday, April 8, 2012

As I often say, I take a lot of photos that I don't end up posting here. It's always better to take too many photos of a scene than not enough, and that means I delete a lot of photos that don't quite "make the cut." Here are some "outtakes" from photos I posted the previous week. I've been meaning to start doing this for a while now, so this week is as good as any.

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